A programme that activates a major privacy upgrade for Bitcoin is primed and ready. But it has reignited a debate about who’s allowed to press the launch button: the miners that process Bitcoin blocks or the node operators that validate transactions.
The privacy upgrade, called Taproot, makes it harder to distinguish between different Bitcoin transactions, such as multi-signature transactions or opening payment channels on the Lightning Network.
The programme, that launches Taproot, Speedy Trial, grants Bitcoin miners the power to implement the upgrade within three months. If they demur, node operators will likely get to decide.
But Luke Dashjr, a prominent Bitcoin Core developer who’s worked on the network since 2011, wants node operators to come first. He said that Speedy Trial implements a proposal called BIP 9, which node operators rejected in February.
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